Recent content by Toolpunk

It has never been tested for iron but I can tell you we have rust big time. It fills our toilet tanks, clogs our faucets and shower heads and kills our water heaters.

Fill water is TA: 260, CH: 200 Ok so I learned several things recently and one being that the pool isn't doing full cycles when the vacuum is hooked up and running... Bad reading lead to over dosing the chlorine. Here is the new numbers. FC: 12.4 CC: .6 PH: 8 TA: 220 CH: Still purple right...

Dumped in 1 gal of the 10% Bleach you suggested yesterday and the day before. Today I received my Taylor K-2006C and went to testing. FC - Kit said to add 2 scoops of the DPD Powder R-0870 and that the water should turn Red. My water turned Nothing. I watched a video and the guys water turned...

@YippeeSkippy Thank you much, in all my researching I just now found this website. I am a person that would rather put forth the effort to do things right instead taking a quick route for a half done job. I Will read up on those threads and look into those test kits.

Ok. Last year we set up for the first time at the beginning of summer. Filled the pool with an in line water filter Added recommended first time salt amount Added recommended hard water treatment Added recommended PH UP Shocked the pool with Blue+Algae Ran on boost for a while before first swim...